Monday, June 1, 2015

Portland, OR June 1st, 2015 -
With less than 2 weeks remaining until the 5th annual Portland Fruit Beer Festival organizers are revealing the tantalizing beer list today as well as a first ever Fruit Beer Fest exclusive bottle release. Fruit of the Garden of Good and Evil is a collaboration between Burnside Brewing Co. and Reverend Nat's Hard Cider.
This years festival features a 40% space increase by adding an extra
space for more room, more beers and hard cider just west of the main
festival lot on NE 7th and Burnside.

Courtesy of Portland Fruit Beer Festival

Fruit of the Garden of Good and Evil
Exclusive
Portland Fruit Beer Festival bottle release and beer from Burnside
Brewing Co. and Reverend Nat's Hard Cider: Fruit of the Garden of Good
and Evil. This unholy marriage of beer and cider is the ultimate
temptation of luscious, juicy and tropical fruit character with notes of
Pineapple and Apricot that pulls you in before ending in a firey
tropical heat of Ghost Peppers, Scotch Bonnets and Aji peppers and a
thirst quenching 4.5% (estimated) ABV. Available in 22oz bottles only at
Burnside Brewing during the Fruit Beer Fest for $7 with limited draft
poured at the festival, Reverend Nat's and special events.

Main Fest Draft Beer List:

Alameda Brewing: Berried By Night
Marionberry CDA
Guided
only by the light of the moon, we poured over 130 pounds of Marion
blackberries, copious amounts of 7 varieties of hops, and just a bit of
roasted malt into this very Cascadian beer. Enjoy the night, any time of
day. 7.4% ABV. 75 IBU

Baerlic Brewing: Apolis Cider Weiss
What
do you get when you use wild lactobacillus from the skin of English
apples to kettle sour a Gose only to blend that with Reverend Nat's
Ciderkin Cider? A ridonkulously refreshing beer that hails from no place
but the epic depths of our whacked out minds. 4.23% ABV enough IBU.

Breakside Brewery: Tropical Fruit Salad
Quasi IPA Six fruit blend

Hops
like Mosaic, Citra, and Eldorado are often described as having the
flavor and aroma of tropical fruit. So, we've reverse engineered the
flavors of American IPA using real tropical fruit. A blend of six
carefully selected fruits go into this beer, as well as a healthy dose
of similar tasting hops. Try it for yourself and see how hop and fruit
flavor meld together! 6.2% ABV Unknown IBU

Burnside Brewing: Peaches of Immortality
The Legend of Peaches of Immortality: Peaches symbolizing immortality (or the wish for a long and
healthy life) are a common symbol in Chinese art, appearing in
depictions or descriptions in a number of fables, paintings, and other
forms of art, often in association with thematically similar
iconography, such as certain deities or immortals

The
immortals waited six thousand years before gathering for this
magnificent feast; the peach tree put forth leaves once every thousand
years and it required another three thousand years for the fruit to
ripen. Statues depicting Xi Wangmu's attendants often held three
peaches. 3,000 years of life after the consumption of a single peach. 6.2% ABV 3 IBU.

Burnside Brewing/Reverend Nat's Hard Cider: Fruit of the Garden of Good & Evil

Deschutes Brewery: Dr. Plum
For
sour beer enjoyment we prescribe Dr. Plum! A base of Deschutes River
Ale that we aged in oak for over 12 months with B. Lambicus, B.
Bruxellensis, Lactobacillus and tart Italian Plum. Light and refreshing
with a hint of fruit and a sour kick. It cures what ales ya! ABV: 5.6%
IBU: 24

Ecliptic Brewing: Ultra Violet Blackberry Sour Ale
Ultraviolet
is brewed with Oregon blackberries, soured in the brewhouse and
fermented with Belgian yeast. The result is a tart and crisp sour ale,
with ripe blackberry flavors radiating through it like cosmic rays
traveling the universe. 7.5% ABV

Elysian Brewing/Payette Brewing: Huckleberry Sour
Elysian Brewing of Seattle, Washington and Payette
Brewing of Boise, Idaho teamed up for the first time to brew this
Northwest huckleberry sour. The beer is light, tart and bright freakin’
PINK! It’s brewed in the (mostly) traditional Berliner Weisse style,
employs a grain bill of half wheat and half barley, is soured with
Lactobacillus, and weighs in at a thirst quenching 2.8% ABV. Add to
this a whopping two-and-a-half pounds per barrel of delicious
Idaho-grown huckleberries and you have the perfect antidote for these
hot summer days.

Poured
on Nitro. This
beer has a nose of raspberries with a smooth and full but light
body.The nitro makes it creamy and mellow and the finish is tart from
the
fruit. It is so easy to drink. Brewed with 6-row, wheat, corn, rice,
flaked barley, and a healthy dose of biscuit malt. All tettnanger hops
and fermented with 1056 ale yeast before being lagered an additional 6
weeks with Raspberries added in the brite tank. OG 1047 FG 1008 18 IBU
4.86% abv SRM 4.5
before fruit

Lucky Labrador Brew Pub: Banana Bread
Wheat,
chocolate, and aromatic malts give this barely hopped brown ale a malty
aroma and smooth mouthfeel. Banana, clove, vanilla, and ginger was
added to the beer during boiling, fermentation, and conditioning to
bring all the flavors of a banana bread Grandma would be proud of. We
hope you enjoy this unique ale. 4.76% ABV 3 IBU

Oakshire Brewing: Stone Free Cranberry Ginger Wild Ale
Stone
Free is a blend of a Brett fermented Berliner Weisse and a wine barrel
aged sour golden ale aged on Cranberries and Ginger. It is deep pink in
color with tart fruit, funky and bready aromas and a background waft of
ginger. Stone Free has both sweet and tart flavors intertwined with mild
spicy ginger and a crisp and dry tangy finish. 5.1% ABV.

Gose
is an old wheat beer style originated in Leipzig, Germany. It is a beer
that uses Lactobacillus bacteria to acidify the beer giving it a tart,
lemony flavor. Gose’s are spiced with coriander and salt to give them a
deep and savory character which balances nicely with the tart finish.
We used Jacobsen Sea salt from the Oregon coast to give it a rich sea
salt flavor. The beer itself is hazy and light, like many wheat beers,
and is very refreshing. We added Oregon Fruit Boysenberry puree to our
Gose for the Fruit Beer Fest which added a pink/ purple color and mild
berry flavor. We hope you enjoy this delicious beer, Prost! ABV: 5.1%
IBU: 8

Lompoc Brewing: Golden Pear
A golden ale fermented in stainless steel with pears and
aged on the pears for a year. Subtle notes of pear with a slight
tartness. 5.0% ABV

Upright Brewing: B.B. Stout
named in honor of the late B.B. King, is a straightforward
beer with big flavors. Fermented in our open top tanks, the beer
maintains a robust profile typical of the stout style with the addition
of over 200 pounds of blueberry, adding one extra flavorful layer to the
beer.

Widmer Brothers Brewing: Fresh Strawberries
Tart Farmhouse Saison with Strawberries
Fresh Strawberries is a collaboration brew with Coda Brewing from
Aurora, Colorado. Using Saison as a base, we added fresh strawberries
and then kettle soured the beer with Lactobacillus to increase the
tartness and balance out the sweetness from the fruit. French Sasion
yeast allowed us to pull some subtle spicy notes in the aroma and
flavor. 5.4 % ABV.

Bringing back the crowd-pleaser spicy hot Tepache from last year's fest, this time with only Ghost Peppers. 3.2% ABV

Cider Riot: Hedgerow Fruits
plum and blackcurrant cider.
Yamhill
County was once the prune capital of the world, for Hedgerow Fruits we
combine Italian prune plums with blackcurrants for a dry tart cider.
Hedgerow Fruits is our tribute to the late English beer writer Michael
Jackson, who was fond of referring to “notes of hedgerow fruits” as a
beer descriptor. Made for the Portland Fruit Beer Fest, Hedgerow Fruits
is a limited release from Cider Riot! 6.9% ABV

7th & E. Burnside on the North side of the street. Taking place
between Burnside & Couch streets on 7th and in the parking lot of
Burnside Brewing Co. at 701 E. Burnside and the car lot across 7th in
Portland, OR 97214